The Borneo Highway

Finally, the Borneo Highway is taken off. It may take more than ten years to complete the 1000km, but at least there is a beginning. Four lanes will be ideal at current state.
People like me ,who travel often by road, have been cursing every time driving behind these slow vehicles or a convoy of lorries. You would be quite frustrated when the front vehicles travel at 30-50km per hour and yet could not overtake due to winding road. Sometimes when you overtake, these front vehicles also accelerate so as not to let you overtake, creating many dangerous situations. The Overtaking lanes are useless when these slow vehicles and lorries also suddenly speed up. Worst still, they don't go to the slow lanes. Slow lorries would also want to overtake slower lorries, blocking any over taking.

Fractured Phyllite

While most of the rock cores are quite fractured, there are few which are strongly bound together to form a nice core.

How thick is the Limestone bedrock?

This drilling is at the Satok area in Kuching, 11.9m earth on top over more than 30m Limestone bedrock. I wonder how thick is actually this Limestone layer, 100m or 200m thick or more. How long it took for the sea shell debris to accumulate to form such massive layer and beautiful rock?

Shaping of Earth Surface

I tended to think that Earth surface was shaped by tectonic movements, followed by water, wind and temperature, plus now the human actions. Humans could remove or build huge mountains with their monster machinery. But when I saw these two moulds built up (1m high) within a month, I have to add in the termite actions also contribute shaping of the earth surface significantly!

Although, the termites are small, but each working termite is like a bulldozer. When there are millions of them participating in the earthworks, the earth surface can be changed easily after 1 month. What about if this continues on for 100 million years?